Movie Substrate · Film
Army of Darkness (1992)
★ 7.3 · 3,493 ratings on TMDB
Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas.
Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of the undead.
DirectorSam Raimi
The emergence reading
Army of Darkness keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E0timetime travel is possible for a single individual via a magical book (physics · personal)
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
The Matrix (1999)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Interstellar (2014)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Back to the Future (1985)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Avengers: Endgame (2019)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Doctor Strange (2016)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Back to the Future Part III (1990)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
